Look - raising it from $9 a year to $50 wouldn't deter people from squatting/parking. Think of it from a parker's perspective: you have a portfolio of 1000 doma

Look - raising it from $9 a year to $50 wouldn't deter people from squatting/parking. Think of it from a parker's perspective: you have a portfolio of 1000 domains and, on average, each domain makes you $200 a year. You currently pay $9/yr per domain leaving a net profit of $191,000 ($200,000 - $9000 in fees). Changing it to $50 per registration definitely means you make less profit but you still clear $150,000 a year so you shrug your shoulders and do it. However, changing from $9 to $50 for someone who owns one domain as family website, for example, means a lot. You'll lose a lot of people since $50 is real money and $9 can be thrown away (in a lot of people's minds). Of course, when these people don't renew their domains because it's too expensive, the squatters buy them and now you have even more squatted domains. So there's no easy answer to the problem...